In Re: Wayne K. Crawford, Debtor-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Kmart Corporation, Murphy v. O'Donnell (2007)
2 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1322
Relies on Leser Jj Mickelson v. J Leser K · Black v. United States Postal Service · First National Fidelity Corp. v. Perry · Andrews v. Loheit · Bentley v. Boyajian (In Re Bentley)
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his is one of those areas of the law in which it is not possible to do better than to instruct the first-line decision maker, the bankruptcy judge, to seek a result that is reasonable in light of the purposes of the relevant law, which in this case is Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code; and to uphold his determination unless it is unreasonable (an abuse of discretion). 21”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Pracht · In Re Edmonds
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.